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iOS 26.2 Will Let Some iPhone Users Replace Siri With a Third-Party Assistant
In iOS 26.2 beta 3, Apple is laying the groundwork for a future option that will let iPhone users in Japan choose a different default voice assistant. Right now, a press and hold gesture on the Side Button only activates Siri, but there are multiple references to new Side Button behavior in the beta.
Apple will allow you to set up the iPhone side button to set up an assistant other than Siri, a novelty that will in principle be offered only to users in Japan and that the technology company is already working on.
Apple continues to refine iOS 26, adding new features through ongoing development and beta testing. And indeed, the third beta of iOS 26.2, available to developers since last night, contains at least two very interesting new features.
With iOS 26.2, European users of the iPhone could soon replace Siri with a third-party voice assistant — a first-time history for the iOS ecosystem. An option hidden in iOS 26.2: Siri is no longer untouchable The latest beta of the iPhone 26.2 contains several lines of code revealed by the Internet. [...] The article iOS 26.2: Siri soon replaceable in the EU by Gemini, ChatGPT or other IA assistants appeared first on BlogNT: the Blog of New Tech…
Apple in Japan will allow users to replace Siri with alternative voice assistants: the first signs of this are emerging in the iOS 26.2 betas, and Apple has confirmed them to developers. For now, Europe remains tied to the traditional interaction system, but the DMA could impose the same rule on the Old Continent. - on macitynet.it Siri loses its reign in Japan, with Europe in the background.
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